Jeff Lemire Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no one true church.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
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What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.
